Word: dismalness
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...Princeton challenge failed to materialize as the Tigers managed just two firsts, both in the weight events, for 41 points to Harvard's 89. Yale, as expected, did not mount anything approaching a respectable effort, coming in third with a dismal 18 points...
Americans sometimes seem almost eager to believe the most dismal stories about themselves, particularly stories of bad Samaritanism, of cries for help going ignored by an alienated citizenry. Last week the Associated Press sent out on its wires a lugubrious tale about a Wyoming motorist who was found in his car by the side of the road, shot dead with his own .22 pistol. His suicide note sounded desperate: "I have been waiting eleven hours for someone to stop. I can't stand the cold any longer and they just keep passing me by." The item was immediately picked...
Prospects for the 1973 harvest look almost as dismal. A virtually snowless winter has deprived huge areas in central and western Russia of the snow cover that ordinarily protects grain from killing frost. Massive planting this spring is scarcely expected to make up for the damage to winter wheat, which might force the Kremlin to turn to the West again for heavy imports of grain...
Harvard's ski team began its campaign to better last year's dismal last place finish in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) by placing fourth in both the Alpine and cross country competition at the University of Vermont Carnival last weekend...
...dead bodies of former slave masters; in recent years the unsavory nature of the Haitian government has tended to keep that isolation intact. As a result, Haiti is a country that has turned in on itself and had little commerce with other nations, one reason for its dismal economic status (annual per capita income...